Consumer confidence drops to 97.3 in May 2019: RBI Survey

10 Jun 2019 Evaluate

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS) has showed that consumer confidence dropped to 97.3 in May 2019, after a sharp upsurge of 104.6 in the March 2019 round. It noted that weakening confidence is primarily attributable to the deterioration in sentiments on jobs, price levels and the economy.

RBI has said that while there were negative sentiments with sign of deterioration as against last round with respect to employment situation and price level, the respondent expressed positive sentiments with sign of deterioration on the economic situation, income and spending behavior. It also noted that for the one year ahead expectations compared with current situation, the consumer confidence fell to 128.4 in May as against the all-time high of 133.4 in March.

According to the survey, the respondents expressed negative sentiments with sign of deterioration compared to last round when it came to price level expectations. It also said that there were positive sentiments with sign of deterioration on responses about economic situation, employment, income and spending. It pointed out that the one year ahead outlook also turned out to be less optimistic, more than 60 per cent of respondents expect improvement in the general economic situation in the year ahead.

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